Christopher D. Johnson

Christopher D. Johnson is Associate Professor of German, Spanish, and comparative literature at Arizona State University. He previously taught Spanish early modern literature at UCLA, comparative literature at Harvard University, and early modern English literature at Northwestern University. He was also a Research Fellow on the project Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology at the Warburg Institute in London. He is currently writing a book, Beyond Baroque: Networks of Verbal and Visual Expression to be published by Princeton University Press.

Publications

• “Warburg’s Zwischenraum: Between Hieroglyph and Diagram,” in Aby Warburg: Work, Legacy and Promise, ed. David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 75-102.
• Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg’s Atlas of Images (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2012).
• Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, with Harvard University Press, 2010).